Ottoman Empire
Imperial Collection - filigree necklace with freshwater pearls
The Imperial Collection is inspired by the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires; 17th Century Russia; and European wrought-ironwork and architectural detail.
Ottoman Centuries
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The Ottoman Empire began in 1300 under the almost legendary Osman I, reached its apogee in the sixteenth century under Suleim Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East
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In the Ottoman Empire, even members of the ruling elite were technically slaves of the sultan and therefore could be ordered to surrender their labor, their property, or their lives at any moment.
Ottoman Kitchen
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Nowhere has there ever been a city more famous for its bazaars than Constantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey.
An Ottoman Tragedy
In the space of six years early in the seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire underwent such turmoil and trauma--the assassination of the young ruler Osman II, the re-enthronement and subsequent abdication of his mad uncle Mustafa I, for a start--that a scholar pronounced the pe
Possessors and Possessed
Possessors and Possessed analyzes how and why museums--characteristically Western institutions--emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire.